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Etymology
Origin of -es
From the Greek suffix -es
Example Sentences
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A squad of female mariachis in blue soon proceeded to walk down the runway, ushering in her ranchera ballad, “Ese Hombre Es Malo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
About 60% of the U.S. population report a preference for introversion, according to Myers-Briggs Co., the company known for a personality-assessment test that begins by separating the Is from the Es.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
She also teased her catty upcoming single “Él No Es Tuyo” — set for release in early March, the song notably features her former rival, Bellakath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
The first triple E outbreak on record occurred in Massachusetts in the 1830s in horses — the reason one of the three Es stands for “equine.”
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
An enemy Mirage III Es sharks through a skyful of Seacats and Seawolfs and Sea Slugs.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
It clarifies: “But use the apostrophe alone for Jesus’ and for ancient and biblical proper names of more than one syllable ending in -es: Demosthenes’ orations, Xerxes’ conquests, Jesus’ birth.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
Exceptions are the possessive of ancient proper names in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus', and such forms as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
In English works of the fourteenth century the -en of the Midland, and the -es of the Northumbrian is frequently dropped, thus gradually approximating to our modern conjugation.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
Boxes, churches, judges, lashes, kisses, blazes, princes.—Here there is the addition, not of the mere letter s, but of the syllable -es.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
A still more striking peculiarity is that the same rule often holds for the ending -es.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Most of the farms were replaced by housing developments two decades after a large swath of land was sold in 1920 to E.S.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2021
Erdnase, an author about whom nothing is known except that his name is E.S.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2018
Originally called Frederick Douglass School from its inception in 1889 until 1938, it was renamed after E.S.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2017
The company, which completed its purchase of E.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2015
I scanned the flashlight lower: Here lies E.S.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
It is only 23 days since Chelsea paid £30m to sign Ipswich Town striker Liam Delap, who scored in their 3-0 win over ES Tunis.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
Finally, he pulled forward across four vacant parking spaces with his 2007 Lexus ES 390 before turning 90 degrees and reversing into a spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Trump Media then received an "unexpected" second $6 million payment from the ES Family Trust, according to receipts reviewed by The Guardian.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023
The ATM business of Leonardo U.S. unit Selex ES "is a leading developer and manufacturer of en-route navigation, surveillance and precision approach and landing systems," Leonardo said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2022
ES: “I know, I’m so upset. That’s why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass.”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Ambient audio in Walker’s footage captures someone saying: “Este es el acceso de colaboradores.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A Russia-Tanzania Business Council was created in January and last month Air Tanzania announced the launch of flights from Dar es Salaam to Moscow by the end of the year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
In recent years, the company acquired terminals in Haifa, Israel; Tanzania’s Port of Dar es Salaam; Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo; and a coal-export hub in North Queensland, Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“A swee lass, but shae es turible shy. Yeh woon’t be heeren mekel out o’ her, Oi’m afeerd.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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